Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee to act as connecting link between new students and all existing college activities was formed last night at a meeting in Phillips Brooks House. In organizing this committee efforts were made to keep it as representative as possible. Its members hope by getting in personal touch with all the new students, to enlist their support of all that is best in the College...
Although studies cannot on any account be neglected, especially at first, one of the very last ways of getting into touch with the College is to stick to one's books too consistently. Some few always go to the "activity" extreme, others to the scholastic. But it is a well-established fact that the solid majority of each class at Harvard proves thoroughly capable of riding both horses at once, and doing it well. In fact, the maintenance of a constant balance between these two phases of college life is the truest criterion of a successful all-around college career...
...ready list of addresses than was obtainable by the older methods. The most signal use of the catalogue at the present time is in forwarding the work of the Endowment Fund Committee, making it possible for the managers of the $11,000,000 campaign to get in personal touch with every living University man through the district organizations which cover the world. These cards can be distributed geographically, by classes or professions, or in whatever way the local conditions of the campaign warrant...
During the three year term for which he has agreed to each the students who come from all parts of the Balkans. All port will keep in close touch with the Mission and inform the Committee of any opportunities for either reconstruction or missionary work...
...September he plans to begin work actively. He will attempt to help the newspapers and magazines to secure accurate news of the University with a minimum of inconvenience and delay, and he will also make other arrangements for keeping Harvard graduates and the public in general in closer touch with the University...